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The question whether language use could be completely arbitrary is a rather recent one. It mainly emerged from independent exegetical works by Saul Kripke (1982) and Crispin Wright (1980) on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on rule-following. For present purposes, I shall concentrate mainly on Kripke’s work.
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© 2014 Florian Demont-Biaggi
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Demont-Biaggi, F. (2014). Kripke’s Wittgenstein. In: Rules and Dispositions in Language Use. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358608_2
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